- Sputnik International
World
Get the latest news from around the world, live coverage, off-beat stories, features and analysis.

'Let Him Have Fun': Lavrov on Johnson's Russia-Nazi Germany Comparison

© AFP 2023 / Justin TallisLondon Mayor Boris Johnson
London Mayor Boris Johnson - Sputnik International
Subscribe
Last month, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson drew parallels between the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia and the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany.

In his interview with the BBC, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov responded to his British counterpart’s remark, at the same time emphasizing that he was not judging Johnson and suggested “letting him have fun.”

“In 1938, the English team played [football] against Germany, when 1936 was already in the past. There are plenty of pictures on the Internet in which both German and English players give the Nazi salute to Hitler,” Lavrov told the BBC.

Boris Johnson has compared the upcoming football tournament held in Russia to the 1936 Olympics under Adolf Hitler amid speculation that Moscow was behind the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

Newsfeed
0
To participate in the discussion
log in or register
loader
Chats
Заголовок открываемого материала